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How we use your content in Flex and Flash Builder documentation

This post is intended for those of you who create articles, tutorials, and videos related to Flex and Flash Builder (although it will be useful to everyone). Apologies in advance for the bland title, but try as I might, I couldn’t think of a snappy one…

Observant readers will have noticed that over the last few years, we at Adobe have been working to identify and link to content that you, the community, create. Whether it’s an article, a video, a code example… whatever, we want to integrate with great community content. And I think this is a great thing for everyone:

You/Bloggers – Links from our pages on adobe.com boost your site’s page rank, making it even more likely that searchers will find your content in the future.

Us/Adobe – Scanning the community for content helps us learn what’s important for customers and identify who’s who in the community.

I don’t know whether or not you’ve noticed, but lately we’ve given even more visibility to your links, moving them to the top of the page, sometimes placing the link inline, along with the related discussion. Also, we are applying some visual treatments to highlight these links:

Adobe recommends – This treatment includes a blurb and an image (I’ve even contacted some of you for a picture or icon) to help draw attention to the link. See the About Spark layouts and Define views in a mobile application pages for examples of the “Adobe recommends” treatment.